user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/page-flags.h, branch v4.20.5

mm: create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for init use

2018-10-26T23:26:34Z

It doesn't make much sense to use the atomic SetPageReserved at init time when we are using memset to clear the memory and manipulating the page flags via simple "&=" and "|=" operations in __init_single_page. This patch adds a non-atomic version __SetPageReserved that can be used during page init and shows about a 10% improvement in initialization times on the systems I have available for testing. On those systems I saw initialization times drop from around 35 seconds to around 32 seconds to initialize a 3TB block of persistent memory. I believe the main advantage of this is that it allows for more compiler optimization as the __set_bit operation can be reordered whereas the atomic version cannot. I tried adding a bit of documentation based on f1dd2cd13c4 ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online"). Ideally the reserved flag should be set earlier since there is a brief window where the page is initialization via __init_single_page and we have not set the PG_Reserved flag. I'm leaving that for a future patch set as that will require a more significant refactor. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925202018.3576.11607.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: provide kernel parameter to allow disabling page init poisoning

2018-10-26T23:26:34Z

Patch series "Address issues slowing persistent memory initialization", v5. The main thing this patch set achieves is that it allows us to initialize each node worth of persistent memory independently. As a result we reduce page init time by about 2 minutes because instead of taking 30 to 40 seconds per node and going through each node one at a time, we process all 4 nodes in parallel in the case of a 12TB persistent memory setup spread evenly over 4 nodes. This patch (of 3): On systems with a large amount of memory it can take a significant amount of time to initialize all of the page structs with the PAGE_POISON_PATTERN value. I have seen it take over 2 minutes to initialize a system with over 12TB of RAM. In order to work around the issue I had to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and then the boot time returned to something much more reasonable as the arch_add_memory call completed in milliseconds versus seconds. However in doing that I had to disable all of the other VM debugging on the system. In order to work around a kernel that might have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled on a system that has a large amount of memory I have added a new kernel parameter named "vm_debug" that can be set to "-" in order to disable it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925201921.3576.84239.stgit@localhost.localdomain Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: workingset: tell cache transitions from workingset thrashing

2018-10-26T23:26:32Z

Refaults happen during transitions between workingsets as well as in-place thrashing. Knowing the difference between the two has a range of applications, including measuring the impact of memory shortage on the system performance, as well as the ability to smarter balance pressure between the filesystem cache and the swap-backed workingset. During workingset transitions, inactive cache refaults and pushes out established active cache. When that active cache isn't stale, however, and also ends up refaulting, that's bonafide thrashing. Introduce a new page flag that tells on eviction whether the page has been active or not in its lifetime. This bit is then stored in the shadow entry, to classify refaults as transitioning or thrashing. How many page->flags does this leave us with on 32-bit? 20 bits are always page flags 21 if you have an MMU 23 with the zone bits for DMA, Normal, HighMem, Movable 29 with the sparsemem section bits 30 if PAE is enabled 31 with this patch. So on 32-bit PAE, that leaves 1 bit for distinguishing two NUMA nodes. If that's not enough, the system can switch to discontigmem and re-gain the 6 or 7 sparsemem section bits. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Daniel Drake Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Enderborg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation

2018-08-24T01:48:43Z

A process can be killed with SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) when it tries to allocate a page that was just freed on the way of soft-offline. This is undesirable because soft-offline (which is about corrected error) is less aggressive than hard-offline (which is about uncorrected error), and we can make soft-offline fail and keep using the page for good reason like "system is busy." Two main changes of this patch are: - setting migrate type of the target page to MIGRATE_ISOLATE. As done in free_unref_page_commit(), this makes kernel bypass pcplist when freeing the page. So we can assume that the page is in freelist just after put_page() returns, - setting PG_hwpoison on free page under zone->lock which protects freelists, so this allows us to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a page that is decided to be allocated soon. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531452366-11661-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Reported-by: Xishi Qiu Tested-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: mark pages in use for page tables

2018-06-08T00:34:37Z

Define a new PageTable bit in the page_type and use it to mark pages in use as page tables. This can be helpful when debugging crashdumps or analysing memory fragmentation. Add a KPF flag to report these pages to userspace and update page-types.c to interpret that flag. Note that only pages currently accounted as NR_PAGETABLES are tracked as PageTable; this does not include pgd/p4d/pud/pmd pages. Those will be the subject of a later patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180518194519.3820-4-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: split page_type out from _mapcount

2018-06-08T00:34:37Z

We're already using a union of many fields here, so stop abusing the _mapcount and make page_type its own field. That implies renaming some of the machinery that creates PageBuddy, PageBalloon and PageKmemcg; bring back the PG_buddy, PG_balloon and PG_kmemcg names. As suggested by Kirill, make page_type a bitmask. Because it starts out life as -1 (thanks to sharing the storage with _mapcount), setting a page flag means clearing the appropriate bit. This gives us space for probably twenty or so extra bits (depending how paranoid we want to be about _mapcount underflow). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180518194519.3820-3-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: uninitialized struct page poisoning sanity checking

2018-04-06T04:36:25Z

During boot we poison struct page memory in order to ensure that no one is accessing this memory until the struct pages are initialized in __init_single_page(). This patch adds more scrutiny to this checking by making sure that flags do not equal the poison pattern when they are accessed. The pattern is all ones. Since node id is also stored in struct page, and may be accessed quite early, we add this enforcement into page_to_nid() function as well. Note, this is applicable only when NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS=n [pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v4] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180215165920.8570-4-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213193159.14606-4-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Bharata B Rao Cc: Daniel Jordan Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Steven Sistare Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove PG_highmem description

2018-02-01T01:18:40Z

Commit cbe37d093707 ("[PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmem") removed PG_highmem to save a page flag. So the description of PG_highmem is no longer needed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517391212-2950-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Miles Chen Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page*

2017-11-16T02:21:03Z

empty_bad_page() and empty_bad_pte_table() seem to be relics from old days which is not used by any code for a long time. I have tried to find when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to many code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times. Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor empty_bad_pte_table. We only allocate the storage which is not used by anybody so remove them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: David Howells Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman